In my case, I support the healers getting more DPS button options because I know the devs have done it before. They have a certain tech to do it as well since it is already being used to update the single DoT spell according to what level trait we have on. Updating Cure to change to Cure 2 would be one step that would apply to all of the healers' equivalent to that. It might be possible to consider Afflatus Solace and Rapture taking the same slots as Cure 2 and Medica. Only reason not to would be if the lily spell version needs to be saved, but I haven't been able to find any instance where we actually use Cure 2 over Afflatus Solace as well as the AoE versions. The lily spells are pretty much the better version in almost every way with the only drawback being that it uses the blue lilies to discourage mindless spamming.
A few others mention the Heavensward and Stormblood Scholar. We actually did have Shadowflare and the Miasma DoT. AST is subjective which model would be the best, but the 6 cards started with unique buffs. It is probably the way it is due to the memes of "The Balance" continually getting fished for the card storing spell. I heard NINs usually told us to not give them "The Arrow" since the increased haste for their rotation could do more harm than good for them. Ninjutsus and Mudras are likely why and they already clipped their GCD with the 3 mudras without haste. It was more so the BLM card. We also lost the Royal Road spell to enhance the buff with either higher strength, AoE effects or extensions to the buff time. Royal Road allowed us to convert cards not good for the party into those buff extensions, but we might still get the card we don't want again 30s later. Redraw was a 60s cooldown back then if I recall right and it didn't have any way to prevent the same card from being drawn again at the time either. Definitely need some methods to fix the RNG it had in the past where a card could be godly in one party or a dud in another due to different DPS classes being present.
Another thing to say is that the WHM, SCH and AST had more DoTs to place up in the past. Bio 1 and 2 as well as Aero 1 and 2 were completely separate spells. Both the one and two versions were placed on enemies. WHM even had Aero 3 as the AoE DoT. Art of War used to be Miasma 2 as a burst hit and AoE DoT as well. This request will probably have some resistance to returning since I heard we have a 30 slot limit to the buff / debuff slots. There was a thread created to request increasing the slot limit if I remember right. Until such a thing happens, we probably won't see these multiple DoTs return yet. Players seem to only want SCH to have it with something different for the other 2 classes.

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